South Carolina Floods Aren't Over

Up To 9 Killed In 'Thousand-Year Storm' In South Carolina

Nine people died over the weekend as torrential rains wreaked havoc on South Carolina and neighboring states. South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley and and others are calling the disaster a "1,000 year storm." President Obama declared a state of emergency.

The South Carolina Lowcountry is the area of the state that runs along its coast and encompasses Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton, and Jasper counties. As of 2011, around 20% of this area — with the exception of Beaufort County — lived in poverty.

The rains are subsiding. In some areas, they left over 25 inches of water on the ground. But South Carolina warns that the emergency is not over.

Columbia and Charleston, South Carolina's two largest cities, collectively home to over 250,000 people, were also some of the areas the storm hit hardest.

According to CNN meteorologist Chad Myers, the storm resulted from insane amounts of moisture. "It was a garden hose that just kept pouring ashore in one spot, and that spot was South Carolina," he said.

The hose Myers described looked something like the following:

Just incredible to watch this plume of moisture aim at South Carolina. Extremely unusual atmospheric setup. pic.twitter.com/d8l8NqLnt9

Between 6 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Sunday, the SCEMD reported 315 collisions, 239 calls for assistance, 273 reports of fallen trees and 318 of flooded roads. The state has employed 30,000 sandbags to combat the flooding.